Poor account for 71% of custodial deaths in India Updated: Updated: December 10, 2020 18:17 IST Celebrities or rich people often get reprieve by claiming to suffer from kleptomania, says anti-torture group Share Article AAA A view of Human Rights Commission building (Manav Adhikar Bhawan), in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: V. Sudershan Celebrities or rich people often get reprieve by claiming to suffer from kleptomania, says anti-torture group Data culled from the annual reports of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from 1996-97 to 2017-18 have revealed that 71.58% of the custodial deaths in India were of people from poor or marginalised sections of society, said a statement by an anti-torture group issued on Thursday to mark the United Nations Human Rights Day.